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The date filters seem to be ignored for certain search terms and not others. Searching for, say, "dune before:2019-04-05" filters as expected, but searching for current events proximate terms like "iran" or "donald" returns results that disregard the date ceiling completely.

Blue Origin has actually been around longer than SpaceX. Both companies were also rans of the first XPrize.

Would the increase in time critical public awareness had that thread not been deleted have made a difference? Perhaps the chance that it could should outweigh the urge for propriety in future admin decisions.

The distinction between comments and link titles feels a little false because there's no obligation to link to the root of the primary source document chain, if there even is a canonical primary source for a given story. A submitter could legitimately wrap a link in a thin blog post on their own site and achieve the same effect.

I wonder if the disdain is for the idea of machine made Turkish coffee, or because there's some factor creating variance in the bubbling times for which the machines aren't compensating.

Black Perl 13 years ago

Here's a little something in Python that I spent the last few hours writing:

  def unfalse_poem():
      (None is True) and False
      for subject in [complex(True,False)]:
          subject is not object
          for certainty in [complex(False,True)]:
              certainty is not Exception
              certainty is not license
              subject and certainty
              reduce and coerce
              coerce and reduce
              while certainty.real: unexamined
      for certainty in [complex(False,True)]:
          return certainty is not certainty.real is not certainty

Does anyone have experience with corporate policies regarding the movement of data through airports? I'm curious about the prevalence of the wipe everything and repopulate the hard drive via sftp at destination approach.

The difference between this and the Southwest Airlines example is that the latter comes off as touching loyalty to one's employees, which is nice pr if the anecdote becomes public. If the team member handling the abuse takes it upon him or herself to politely snub the client in the same way, it makes the entire organization seem a little snooty. Whether or not this is justified is, of course, besides the point.

A design that has to rely on the objectivity and dispassion of the collective Media, that has to be taken in the appropriate context as one part of a complicated "identity system" and on whose behalf laypeople are chastised for their immature visceral reactions, is probably just shitty.

[dead] 14 years ago

I'm disturbed by how emotionally indignant both the Aurora and Garret articles are in contrast with the original Ted Tso remarks. My personal expectation of a community of technically sophisticated individuals is that all convictions be subject to critical examination and nothing be taboo. I'd be much more comfortable interacting professionally with someone like Tso whose point-of-view is rationally presented, whether or not I agree with him, then with people who come across with shrill disapprobation and the intention of blackballing colleagues for their public opinions.

My best bursts of rapid learning are almost always project/puzzle driven. I didn't, for instance, set out to master FFT directly, but it seemed like something that could improve my abysmal performance on a Project Euler that I was working on, so I looked into it. I question (open-mindedly, not snarkily) the efficiency of ploughing through a course or series of courses. On the one hand there's the possibility of cross-pollination that having all sorts of cool bits of knowledge and techniques fraternizing in one's head for as long as possible promotes. On the other hand, there's the sense that the most efficient learning sequence is the one that matches the actual sequence of problems as they present themselves. Just-in-time learning of helicoptering, but if and only if you find yourself in a rooftop gunfight, as it were. Of course, then the issue becomes predicting forthcoming problems with enough lead time to learn the solution.

I'd love to find an analogue for the feel of a mechanical keyboard in a laptop keyboard. Something with at least 3mm travel and the actuation point at 2mm.

With all due civility, this is stupid. The fact that we as a species are short staffed and short on time doesn't mean that engineering strategies are inappropriate. On the contrary, they're the only game in town. Triage and problem selection are themselves algorithms with defined optimisation criteria. That you take issue with the selection of those criteria (e.g. elegance, aesthetics) by people trying to solve their personal pain points doesn't repudiate the framework.